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In the sky above, the Celestial Pillars rebuilt themselves, only to collapse again, over and over.
On the ground below, towns cycled between destruction and peace. Figures in the streets alternated between wholeness and fragmentation. Life and annihilation repeated endlessly, until even time itself and the past became hollow and unreal.
Ji Jue walked through these remaining records, looking around at the shattered fragments of old time and the unreachable dream like a pot of golden millet. It seemed close if he extended his hand, yet he could never touch anything.
A lifetime of pursuit was reduced only to emptiness. Compared to the ruins he had once seen, which was more cruel for Mercury?
Under the tolling of cathedral bells, he stopped in the plaza and no longer wished to look further. He had a hunch he already knew where Pacifier was.
The bells thundered and echoed on from within that towering bell tower. Ji Jue looked up, lost in thought as he gazed at the clock tower, at the clock face above, and even beyond it to the mottled, timeworn stained-glass window.
It was the old workshop of Mercury.
For four hundred years, in that long stretch...
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